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In 2010 the British Museum offered five prizes of £100 (≈$140USD/€120) at their shop/bookshop for new Featured Articles on topics related to the British Museum in any Wikipedia language edition. Ideally, the topics were articles about collection items. This was the first time an organisation in the UK had put out a prize that recognises the value of fine articles on Wikipedia. This was a recognition that Wikipedia work is not only good quality but is consistent with the outreach aspect of the Museum's mission to engage the public. It had a positive effect for the Museum in terms of usage of the deeper resources and links back to their research material. It was a win–win situation for free cultural products, and more broadly for the cultural sector. The museum has curators dedicated to answering phone and email questions about their specialist areas and they recognise that editing Wikipedia articles, especially about items in the BM's collections, counts for those purposes. If you require assistance in approaching the British Museum curators, please contact Liam Wyatt (User:Witty lama) |
Note: five years on The winners are listed below, but the format of this page did not require articles being worked on to be listed. With hindsight this was a pity. As well as the winners, many other articles were worked on, and several also became Featured Articles. In English these included Lindow Man, Sweet Track, Harpy Tomb, and Rosetta Stone, which the winners (for the Latin version) did in English. Cyrus Cylinder was greatly improved, but because of controversies inherent in the subject remains a Good Article. (others? please add). Johnbod (talk) 15:19, 19 March 2015 (UTC)